PT-2012-5068 · Cisco · Cisco Ips 4200 Series Sensors

Published 2012-09-16 · Updated 2017-08-29 · CVE-2012-3901

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Cisco IPS 4200 series sensors versions 7.0 through 7.1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a process crash and traffic-inspection outage, via network traffic. This is related to the updateTime function in sensorApp.

Recommendations For versions 7.0 and 7.1, consider disabling the updateTime function as a temporary workaround until a patch is available.

Fix

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-3901

Affected Products

Cisco Ips 4200 Series Sensors

References · 3

• http://cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/ips/7.0/release/notes/22789_01.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3901 · Security Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78870 · Note